Nov 3rd, 2009 - New York Times
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KABUL, Afghanistan — President Hamid Karzai, in his first speech since he was declared the winner of the much-disputed presidential election, said Tuesday that he wanted to tackle corruption but made no specific commitments to reorganize his administration.
"Afghanistan has been tarnished by administrative corruption and I will launch a campaign to clean the government of corruption," he said.
Asked if that might involve changing key ministers and officials, he said, "These problems cannot be solved by changing high-ranking officials. We'll review the laws and see what problems are in the law and we will draft some new laws."
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